forddeliveryboy Posted January 23, 2018 Author Share Posted January 23, 2018 JeeExEll and adw1977 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bezzabsa Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 going through these pics, makes you realise how much skill there was before computers...Just imagine designing the Saturn 5..the SR-71 and Concord all before computers... would love to see some of those engineering pics!!! adw1977 and drivewaymyway 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Yoss Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 I have this upstairs somewhere in full colour but I can't find it.Shows the full Heath Robinsonness of the Triumph 1300. When I find it, I'll put it here. Tis a thing of loveliness. JeeExEll and Asimo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Here's some stuff I pulled out of a skip a few years ago. It was on my delivery and the thing that first caught my eye was an elderly Britool catalogue. This encouraged me to delve deeper and I couldn't believe what I found. The old lady who lived there came out when she saw me and encouraged me to take whatever I wanted as I explained my fondness for old commercial vehicles. You've seen those big red trolleys that postmen use? I managed to half fill mine with these books. They belonged to her late husband but she had no idea what to do with them. A few weeks later she beckoned me in and asked me if this was any use pointing to a nearly full five gallon drum of anti freeze! Always got a good tip at Christmas too. Where to start? A little one first. Napier turbo blowers. A couple of Paxman diesel books. But this is a fabulous Mirlees manual. This also has a Napier Turbo sub section which even has these glossy colour three page pull outs. And this one shows a step by step strip down and reassembly. I reckon if you framed these you could sell them for three figures in certain shops in Islington. This was a much smaller book but when I saw the immortal words English Electric my heart nearly stopped. This one's a bit wordy, not many great diagrams but the EE V16 diesel engine played a great part in my youth. busmansholiday, RayMK, Uncle Jimmy and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 But these deserve there own post.Three manuals for the Leyland O680 from 1947. How can you throw these away? As the owner of an O600 from 1964 you can see how I could barely believe what I had found. One volume has gearboxes in and include a couple of colour pages which must have cost in 1947. LightBulbFun, sheffcortinacentre, busmansholiday and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Wonderful, serendipitous finds there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 ^ Treasure find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 Yes indeed, it's one of those things I don't expect to happen again. Mrs Yoss occasionally asks what I'm going to do with them. Nothing, I don't need to do anything with them except take them out and look at them occasionally. Fortunately they live in a part of the library* where she doesn't notice them too often. *spare room. I like to call it the library as it has bookshelves in it and I have ideas above my station. somewhatfoolish and JeeExEll 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 This is neat. It's a drawing of this. It's a Musterkrempel obviously. Uncle Jimmy and forddeliveryboy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 It's a carding machine - for straightening fibres (eg wool). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 Yes, pretty much, it was for making felt. Do you speak German, did you google it or are you an expert on industrial textile machinery? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 Yes, pretty much, it was for making felt. Do you speak German, did you google it or are you an expert on industrial textile machinery? Some of the above, I sort of used my powers of deduction and reasoning... I spotted the fluff on the rollers and the fact that it looked like the fibres where fed through it, which suggested something to do with textiles. I then google translated the German which gave the following semi-gibberish 'sample card to arrange and parallelise the fibres' (spelling corrected) and the pfennig dropped - it's a carding machine I thought, a quick image search confirmed my theory. Which is now recorded for ever on t'interweb (30 today). PS The only thing I definitely knew is that straightening fibres is called 'carding' in the textiles trade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 Well done, you could have just asked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 But where's the fun in that? Yoss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 Just had too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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